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Lighting two things

Lighting two things

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Lighting two things

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- Now, Rich, in the intro to this week, I described green screen shooting to be all about planning, right? And figuring out where you're going to position things and probably the most important thing to plan in a green screen shoot, besides what you're actually going to use for the background, is the lighting. - Yep! And it's a challenge because you're going to essentially need twice as many lights. Sure, you could light your subject, and that might be a two-point or a three-point lighting approach, and we'll do a little bit of lighting here in a moment, but you're going to need lights to light them. And, that's kind of like the light you have over there, Rob. - Yea, and this is a really important distinction, Rich. There's lighting the people, and then there's lighting the background, right? And I always like to start with the people, because at the end of the day, you want people to look good and you can do some adjusting of the background as necessary. In this box right here, it's…

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